An antibiotic called thanatin attacks the way the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is built. Researchers at the University of
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Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut
A child has until the age of two-and-a-half to establish healthy gut bacteria — with little change after this point,
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Recovering from a heart attack? Hold the antibiotics, mouse study suggests
The community of microorganisms that live in the human gut has been shown to confer all kinds of health benefits.
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Approach paves way for new antimicrobial materials
Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully incorporated “photosensitizers” into a range of polymers, giving those materials the ability
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Infectious bacteria hibernate to evade antibiotics
University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered a surprising tactic of pathogenic bacteria when being attacked by antibiotics: hibernation. Almost all
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New test procedure accelerates the diagnosis of multi-resistant hospital pathogens
A team of researchers at the University of Cologne’s Faculty of Medicine and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
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E. coli’s adaptation to extreme temperatures helps explain resistance to certain drugs
Long before bacteria had to contend with antibiotic drugs, they had to survive extreme temperatures as Earth warmed and cooled
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Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new virulence clues
By analyzing genomic sequences from more than 400 strains of the bacterium that causes anthrax, researchers have provided the first
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Ebola species found in bats ahead of any potential outbreak: Discovery illustrates PREDICT project’s goal to find viruses before they spillover into people
For the first time, scientists discovered a new ebola virus species in a host prior to detection in an infected
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Tibetan sheep highly susceptible to human plague, originates from marmots
In the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, one of the region’s highest risk areas for human plague, Himalayan marmots are the primary carriers
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